Ancient Danish Chewing Gum DNA

In southern Denmark, archaeologists have found a nearly 6,000-year-old piece of chewing gum made from birch pitch at a Stone Age site. When scientists analyzed the gum, they recovered the DNA of the person who chewed it and identified her as a young hunter-gatherer girl with dark skin, black hair, and blue eyes. The sample also preserved traces of her last meal, which included hazelnuts and duck.

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